01.02.2007 17:12

Backing up data from a dead Sony Ericsson T630

Today, a workmate has smashed his Sony Ericsson T630 on the ground and the
display broke. The mobile itself seemed to be alive, though. Now we had
to find out, how to activate the infrared connection to transfer files from
the phone to my computer. After some googline, we found out how to do that in "blind" mode:

Press:
menu button | 8 | 8 | 6 | 2

Afterwards the phone tries to send a file called "Whole phonebook.vcf" to the other side of the infrared
connection. That worked well, _BUT_ this vcf file is of invalid syntax as it contains all contacts in one big vcf
file and therefore we need to split it up. I wrote a small shell script to do that, so if anyone is interested: